Robotic assistance to flexible endoscopy for surgical procedures
Florent Nageotte
Assistant professor, University of Strasbourg, ICube laboratory
DEIB - Building 21, Alario Room (4th floor)
May 24th, 2017
10.00 am
Contacts:
Bernard Bayle
Giancarlo Ferrigno
Research Line:
Biomimetica e micro-nano tecnologie
Tecnologie per la terapia
Tecnologie per la valutazione funzionale e la riabilitazione
Assistant professor, University of Strasbourg, ICube laboratory
DEIB - Building 21, Alario Room (4th floor)
May 24th, 2017
10.00 am
Contacts:
Bernard Bayle
Giancarlo Ferrigno
Research Line:
Biomimetica e micro-nano tecnologie
Tecnologie per la terapia
Tecnologie per la valutazione funzionale e la riabilitazione
Abstract
Flexible and continuum systems are of high interest for minimally invasive medical procedures. For instance, flexible endoscopes and flexible instruments are the most common solution for bringing effectors to operating areas through natural orifices. However, performing complex and accurate tasks with such systems is highly difficult for physicians for several reasons: manual control is not intuitive, several surgeons must cooperate in a restricted space, motion transmission is hampered by friction.
In this context robotics has been identified as a solution to improve flexible endoscopic surgery and to bring novel tools for surgeons.
In the ICube Laboratory in Strasbourg, the researchers have been interested in the robotization of flexible endoscopes since 2005.
In this talk, the speaker will present parts of his work in the context of intraluminal surgery and single port surgery.
In particular he will discuss two aspects:
In this context robotics has been identified as a solution to improve flexible endoscopic surgery and to bring novel tools for surgeons.
In the ICube Laboratory in Strasbourg, the researchers have been interested in the robotization of flexible endoscopes since 2005.
In this talk, the speaker will present parts of his work in the context of intraluminal surgery and single port surgery.
In particular he will discuss two aspects:
- The development of STRAS, a complete teleoperated flexible platform for endoscopic surgery, which has been tested in vivo for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissections (ESD) on porcine models.
- Developments towards semi-automatic assistance to surgeons through the use of computer vision and visual servoing.
Short Bio
Florent Nageotte is an Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg (France) where he teaches automatic control, medical robotics and computer vision. He is affiliated with the ICube Laboratory (joint laboratory of the University of Strasbourg and French National Center for Research (CNRS). His research topics include the use of images and computer vision for controlling medical robots and the development of robotic solutions for flexible endoscopy. With his co-workers, he has developed STRAS, a teleoperated robotic prototype for intraluminal surgery, which is currently transferred for clinical testing.